A coworker told me he almost got hit with a $5,000 ticket for wearing headphones while riding his bike.
He was stopped by a young police officer who immediately said:
“You’re wearing earbuds. That’s a $5,000 fine.”
My coworker tried to explain:
“They’re bone-conduction headphones. I can still hear everything around me.”
The officer didn’t care.
“Headphones are headphones.”
Before my coworker could argue, a senior officer walked over and asked what was happening.
After hearing the situation, he immediately said:
“Wait. That’s not how this works.”
He explained that wearing headphones isn’t automatically a violation…
My aunt thought the hardest part of her medical emergency would be getting better.
She was wrong.
The hardest part came three weeks later.
A bill arrived in the mail.
$38,742.16
She stared at it for almost five minutes.
She had insurance.
She had a full-time job.
She had never considered herself irresponsible with money.
But none of that mattered when the bill arrived.
Her first thought was,
“How am I supposed to pay this?”
She called the hospital…
Is President William Ruto turning former President Uhuru Kenyatta into a political scapegoat and a tool to discredit the opposition?
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